Still Hot at 96 degrees.

It's time to chill if that is possible.  Soup kitchen was yesterday along with a visit to the PT guy.  My knee is healing thanks to a lot of good work.  Today we pack the van for our ??? camping trip.  How many...can't remember.  Tomorrow we drive to Madison Wis.  I checked the weather and it's just about as hot there as here.  Not the case at Copper Harbor.  Jared and family are arriving today.  So...so long for now.

Hot again.

Very hot.  No rain.  No 20 chipmunks now living somewhere else.  This was the first morning free of chipmunks in a long time.  4 soon to be monarch's living in a protected environment.  Pesky certain fly needs to be kept from them. They are killers.  .   Took two friends to see Patti Becks wonderful country garden 20 miles north of here Monday.  Lovely trip.  Worked at the front desk at church this morning.  Tomorrow is soup kitchen morning.  Heat...we have way to much.  Garden is dust but I think the plants will survive.  They have stopped growing.  Can't blame them.

July 4.

Woo...a decent night of sleeping.  That really was refreshing and this morning...back in the garden.  Watering where needed...weeding...snipping and cutting.  Huge burn pile to burn...Doug tried 3 times Monday...2 times today.  I asked to try a burn and guess what?  I GOT IT GOING.  So another pile gone.

Found another log with a hole...brought it home and now a little beany baby is sitting in it in the flowerbed.  I need a squirrel or chipmunk beany baby.  Not the real thing.  There is another chipmunk in the garden.  Trap set!  We have been blessed to have a mother hawk and two babies in the yard for a few days.  Woo...noisy to say the least but they are beautiful.  So happy to have big trees they like.  No big plans today.  Just enjoying the cooler weather.  Well...not 95 at this point.  Time to make some ice tea.

Summer heat has arrived.

Last summer...few, very few days in the 90's...Woo...not so this year.  After time spent in Georgia with family, we returned to a scorched earth Indiana.  Started watering the minute I got home even before the suitcases got in the house.  So..it's time to slow down and veg.  Nights are hot as well so sleeping is a challenge.  The Georgia trip was wonderful.  Such beautiful flower plantings...just lush.  The ordination of brother-in-law Dee or Brother Cassian to Father Cassian was heart warming to say the least.  His life experiences will bring much good to his family of brothers.  It was a very good time of family togetherness.  So...tomorrow is a trip to  Ortho Indy to have another check on the broken knee cap.  Then to PT for another session getting this body back together.  So it goes.